@RISK is the SANS community's consensus bulletin summarizing the most important vulnerabilities and exploits identified during the past week and providing guidance on appropriate actions to protect your systems (PART I). It also includes a comprehensive list of all new vulnerabilities discovered in the past week (PART II).
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PART I Critical Vulnerabilities Part I for this issue has been compiled by Rohan Kotian at TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, as a by-product of that company's continuous effort to ensure that its intrusion prevention products effectively block exploits using known vulnerabilities. TippingPoint's analysis is complemented by input from a council of security managers from twelve large organizations who confidentially share with SANS the specific actions they have taken to protect their systems. A detailed description of the process may be found at http://www.sans.org/newsletters/cva/#process
Description: Adobe Photoshop is a popular image editing software developed by Adobe Systems. Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite (CS) 4 editions. The issues are caused by unspecified errors in the way Adobe Photoshop CS4 processes TIFF files. A specially crafted TIFF file, when opened by an unsuspecting user in Photoshop CS4, will trigger these vulnerabilities. Successful exploitation might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the affected application. No technical details are provided for these vulnerabilities.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Description: Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to handle internet browser downloads and increase download speeds. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been identified in Internet Download Manager. The issue is caused by an error in the way affected application sends certain test sequences to an FTP server. In order to exploit this vulnerability an unsuspecting user will have to be enticed into downloading a file from a specially crafted FTP URI. Successful exploitation might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the logged on user. Some technical details for the vulnerability are publicly available.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Part II -- Comprehensive List of Newly Discovered Vulnerabilities from Qualys (www.qualys.com) Week 19, 2010 This list is compiled by Qualys ( www.qualys.com ) as part of that company's ongoing effort to ensure its vulnerability management web service tests for all known vulnerabilities that can be scanned. As of this week Qualys scans for 9328 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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